Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Stupid Presidents

It is difficult to discern whether our former presidents are as stupid as their presidential actions.  The more I learn about recent American history, the more I realize the United States is embroiled in a major crisis of leadership, control, and survival.  Who was the last honest president?  The answer must be Jimmy Carter, because when you look at the cumulative legislative history of the rest the reason for our dire circumstances becomes clear.  It is mind blowing.  The ramification of Bill Clinton's decisions are what we are living today.  I supported this man when he ran in the early 1990's, because he seemed sincere.  Sincerity is no match for effective lobbying.  It would seem most presidents are at the beckon call of corporate America.  Why in the year 2019 are we paying these ridiculous inflated prices for cable service?  The reason is Bill Clinton.  The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the foundation of the American economy today.  We all know what it is.  Internet technology has taken over, and with that take over and this piece of legislation a media monopoly has been created not unlike George Orwell's predictive "Big Brother."  There even is a TV show named this.  This law which was supposed to create competition in wireless communications instead paved the way for corporate mergers concentrating the flow of America's information into the hands of a few media moguls.  This law destroyed the music industry, and it has yet to recover.  Ken Burns is doing a masterful job pointing out this atrocity.  Bill Clinton, a singular president, single-handedly shifted the American economy into the hands of the internet technology sector.  Consequently we have nothing else.  As the ceiling is approached on the possibilities of wireless innovation, America should have been looking for other commodities.  Traditional ones would have been a good place to start.  Instead of paying off farmers, shorting American workers in favor of a cheap foreign work force, and lining the pockets of a select few we could have been shoring up America.  The puppet strings are so thick no one in America has liberty anymore.  How could it have been a good idea to concentrate the flow of media and information into the hands of a small controlling group of moguls?  Classical music sales died overnight.  Music TV was dismantled in favor of reality TV which instead of paying trained actors exploits the average citizen.  Hip Hop, the last rebellious non conformist music entity died by its own bullets not unlike how jazz died at the bottom of a whiskey bottle.  It was replaced with the most conformist, average, benign music imaginable.  Big Brother securely placed his hands on the shoulders of the millennial generation and said, "Do what I say.  Get in debt.  Get stupid.  Ignore reality."  We have yet to recover.  Extremism walked into America through this concentrated contingency of control.  True America, rebellious and questioning America never knew what hit them.  Now it is undeniable that America is under siege, and grave, dire, and possibly violent means will be needed to restore a balance of power.  This generation is not familiar with the severity of political infighting.  Yes we see petty bickering in Washington, DC, but what we don't see is that same spin machine manufacturing chaos to keep us distracted from the real enemies, politicians.  When was the last time we had an assault on our worthless leaders?  I believe it was a Republican softball game.  Instead of targeting America's real enemies, mentally incompetent pawns are being recruited to incite chaos among the general public.  Even as such our leaders have been unable to provide any leadership.  There is no new gun control legislation.  There is no climate change legislation.  America is spinning backwards in a frightening vortex threatening the very existence of Earth's seeming most powerful nation.  The majority of these consequences have been at the pens of such useless presidents.  Who gave Bill Clinton the right to decide that previously designated dangerous frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum should now become available for auction to wireless telecommunication companies?  There was nothing wrong with our previous system.  The Bell company grew too large to promote competition in its sector, so Washington was prudent enough to break it up.  Then Bill Clinton and George W. Bush turned around and handed America to a select few of extremist ruling oligarchs.  It is a crisis of major proportions, because this faction is in no way concerned with the longevity of our country.  They are trying to destroy it for the sake of our envious, recalcitrant, and vindictive enemies.  Russia, China, and the rest have sneaked in our back door and have been calling the shots for a long time.  It is time for America to recover and to recreate a balanced, fair, and secure nation which is profitable to all citizens.  We cannot become a third world county, because if we do civil war is imminent.